Pages

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

A Cash Wrap - Just in Time!

I can't believe that it's Luckett's time already! I'm scheduled to get the trailer tomorrow and my husband and I will load it up in the evening and we'll turn around and leave the house at 5:30 am on Friday morning to get to our set-up time in Leesburg, Virginia (6 hrs away). I've never been a vendor in a show this far away and have been very lucky in the past years that The Farm Chicks Show in Spokane, WA was only a short 15-20 minutes from my house. On the other hand, this will be the first show that I will not be struggling trying to load and unload furniture and set up a booth with small children. It's such a giant relief not to have a playpen or baby in a backpack or any other worries with kids running around. Call me crazy, but it's like a little vacation!

Anyway, I've been on the hunt for weeks for a small dresser, table, or anything that can work for a cash wrap area for my booth. I gave my cash wrap away to another vendor at the last show before moving to Raleigh last year. Everything I've found was too big, too expensive, etc and with less than a week before the show, I was getting worried until I found this...

I was able to finally take a trip over to Cline's Antiques here in NC and after poking around in the old chicken barns, I spotted it and knew that it was coming home with me! Of course, it was covered in dust and needed to be cleaned and painted. I just finished it just in time...

I painted it with ASCP Coco and Old White and the inside is a pale blue "oops" can that I had laying around. Coco might be one of my new favorite chalk paint colors now. Now I have the perfect little stand to wrap packages without taking up half of my booth!

As much as I would have liked to have a large, double-booth, it's my first time being part of the show and I can only haul up a small trailer load of furniture even though I have enough for two booths in my garage! Speaking of garage, I snapped a few more pictures of some more items that will be showing up at the show...

Another Cline's find...

I'll be sad to part with my rocking horse, but I never found a good spot for him in my new house.

Wouldn't this antique projector look great in a theater room? I've got one more furniture project to finish tomorrow and lots of packing, but I'm getting excited...and a little nervous!

11 comments:

Man.. Now I feel like I need stand.. Argh! Coming over from MMS, I will be a first time vendor at Lucketts this year, only coming from Richmond! Can't wait to check out your booth you've got some yummy stuff! - Susan